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Shipping A Vehicle To Australia – Review

Shipping A Vehicle To Australia – Review

Mar 17, 2023

Disclosure: This week’s blog is specifically written in order to share details, costs and the relevant processes of shipping a personally owned vehicle ( “POV” in shipping slang ) from another country to Australia.. I’ve thus split this blog into two parts: PART ONE -...

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Reunited – And It Feels So Good !

Reunited – And It Feels So Good !

Mar 10, 2023

Forgive me borrowing this week’s banner from the classic Peaches and Herb song, but after 84 days apart ( we last saw our rig on  December 14 in Savannah), over a month of which the Talisman sat just waiting in Bass Strait, and an at times traumatic...

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Return to Forbes

Return to Forbes

Mar 2, 2023

While we have patiently continued the waiting game in Temora, there has been some progress with our ship - read Postscript: Shipping Update ( at the end of the blog ) for the gripping details. Other than that, a pretty short blog along with a very slight change of...

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Port of Melbourne: Update

Port of Melbourne: Update

Feb 23, 2023

Given the extraordinary delays in unloading the Talisman I decided to research what was happening in the nation’s ports - I came across an online article that pretty well spelled it all out ( see the link to it in the Postscript: Shipping Update section at the end of...

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Melbourne – The Mornington Peninsula

Melbourne – The Mornington Peninsula

Feb 17, 2023

To be honest, we’d been more than just a little disheartened this past week after the ongoing unloading delay outlined in the last blog ( I dare not even mention the “s” word - we just call it a “transportation delay” now, it’s so depressing ).  It’s typical when...

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On To Melbourne

On To Melbourne

Feb 8, 2023

Not sure where the time went but it seems suddenly we looked at the calendar and it was time to head to Melbourne for a long-anticipated rendezvous with our rig - or so we hoped anyway. The “car switch” a week before meant we now had a Victorian-plated vehicle making...

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Jeff + Lois

Jeff + Lois

We are Lois and Jeff, of Kelowna, BC, Canada. Recently retired with a serious overlanding travel bug, we hit the road in our truck camper in May 2019, initially tackling the Pan American highway. The PanAm completed in April 2022, and truck camper sold, we plan to continue exploring again later in 2022 in our Sprinter 4×4!

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